After three years, they have not only learned technology skills and built a mobile app, but also gained an understanding for each other’s culture. The two are friends, but still don’t always agree on politics. At least, though, they now have a face to go with the “other side.”

Meet is a project that brings together an equal number of high school students of Jewish and Palestinian background (and an equal number of boys and girls) for a three-year program, pairing them with volunteer mentors from MIT.

Participants spend each day together over the summer learning business and technology skills and continue to meet once a week during the school year. Finally, the youth work together on a technology project.

Yogev and Manna, both now 17 and high school seniors, joined forces on Count Me In, an Android-based meet-up application that helps create impromptu events ranging from a casual dinner to a large-scale peace protest.

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